High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1999 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1999 WJHC) were held in Winnipeg, and five other communities in Manitoba, Canada, December 26, 1998 — January 5, 1999. In the gold medal match, Russia defeated Canada 3-2 on Artem Chubarov`s overtime goal. The bronze medal was claimed by Slovakia, giving the six-year-old country its first medal at an IIHF event.